Sufjan Stevens Song Quotes

#1. We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.

Donald Riggio

#2. There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.

Robert Cormier

#3. If you really want to kill a libriomancer, hook a bomb up to a big red button and tell him not to press it

Jim C. Hines

#4. I know how bad you feel. Trapped," she says. "It gets better, I promise. So much better.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#5. Everybody works ... That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.

Susan Vreeland

#6. Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorized as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic.

Dan Simmons

#7. I can't think of anybody worse to live with.

John Le Carre

#8. Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

#9. I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song,

Sufjan Stevens

#10. It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.

Sufjan Stevens

#11. What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher.

Soichiro Honda

#12. Birds are the eyes of heaven, and flies are the spies of hell.

Suzy Kassem

#13. We can't expect Wall Street to police itself - that's why we have a federal government.

Martin O'Malley

#14. Make us love and obey you so that the works of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until we gaze upon the beauty of your face.

The Catholic Church